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I’ve talked about the “castle doctrine” here before (aka the “Make My Day Law” or, more negatively, the “Shoot The Milkman Law”). Under this legal doctrine that is recognized in many states, if you are in your home and an intruder unlawfully tries to enter to attack you, you can use deadly force to defend yourself while in the sanctity of your “castle.” As I discussed here, in some states the castle doctrine has been extended to cases where the threatened person was not in his home but in his car.